Walt Disney Pictures stops production on the Untitled Henry Selick Project
We reported back in April 2010 that filmmaker Henry Selick (Coraline) signed a deal to make stop-motion features for Walt Disney Pictures and Disney Pixar. This would have been the first movie to come out of that deal. Insiders claim that the movie was behind in production, from both a creative and scheduling perspective. Since it would likely not make its proposed release date, Disney pulled the plug altogether. Production started last summer, although they still had not hired any voice actors.
The filmmaker is now free to shop this project around to other studios. Since Disney never released any promotional materials, the chances are greater that this stop-motion endeavor can find a new home.
The move will reportedly not affect the status of Disney's The Graveyard Book, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel that Henry Selick is attached to direct.
The Shadow King comes to theaters in 2014. The film is directed by Henry Selick.
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LuxoIII
Leave it to Disney to cancel a project just because it might not make them enough money. I miss Walt.
9 months agoby @brady1138Flag
THE JOKER
@zender haha ok... if you say so!
9 months agoby @mcleve02Flag
Mutant
@the JOKER no I don't believe it I just wanted to get a response from someone.
tag your it
9 months agoby @zenderFlag
THE JOKER
@skywise I love that book... he is a phenomenal author!
9 months agoby @mcleve02Flag
skywise
@mcleve02 I have read Sandman and all the tie ins plus I have read most of his novels.
9 months agoby @skywiseFlag
THE JOKER
@skywise have you read Sandman?
9 months agoby @mcleve02Flag
THE JOKER
@zender If you really believe that, you are nuts... Disney has the rights to so many things that people just have not even a slight clue about... If they pulled the project, he wasn't doing his job... period...
9 months agoby @mcleve02Flag
Bradley Tyler
@rufio Not necessarily. Disney rejected Chris Sanders' and Dean DeBlois' interpretation of How To Train Your Dragon because it was too "far outside of the box" for them. It might be that his project was too "far outside of the box" for them too.
9 months agoby @bradley-tylerFlag
Christopher Lino
He can probably take it to Focus, home of Coraline and Paranorman
9 months agoby @christopher-linoFlag
Mutant
Disney really, they don't like dark films unless it's their own.
9 months agoby @zenderFlag
skywise
Neil Gaiman's book is excellent. I really hope this project finds a new home.
9 months agoby @skywiseFlag
Rufio
translation... his project wasn't good. there's no way they'd let a good project go based on a deadline. they'd adjust. this is a unilateral move that signals disney didn't like the project. end of story. *no pun intended*
9 months agoby @rufioFlag
Bawnian©-Dexeus
Ok
9 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag